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Booking.com Phishers May Leave You With Reservations

Krebs on Security

According to the market share website statista.com , booking.com is by far the Internet’s busiest travel service, with nearly 550 million visits in September. We’ll also explore an array of cybercrime services aimed at phishers who target hotels that rely on the world’s most visited travel website.

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How Phished Data Turns into Apple & Google Wallets

Krebs on Security

But they also offer a more cutting-edge mobile fraud technology: Merrill found that at least one of the Chinese phishing groups sells an Android app called “ ZNFC ” that can relay a valid NFC transaction to anywhere in the world. “The software can work from anywhere in the world,” Merrill said.

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The Dark Nexus Between Harm Groups and ‘The Com’

Krebs on Security

Others sell the explicit CSAM content produced by extortion on the dark web.” ” KrebsOnSecurity has learned Holy’s real name is Owen David Flowers , and that he is the previously unnamed 17-year-old who was arrested in July 2024 by the U.K.’s Nelson also pleaded guilty and received a seven-year prison sentence.

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Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

Krebs on Security

Chaput said the spammers used more than 1,500 Internet addresses across 400 providers to register new accounts, which then followed popular accounts on Mastodon and sent private mentions to the followers of those accounts. that were created from different Internet addresses in Vienna, Austria.

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‘The Manipulaters’ Improve Phishing, Still Fail at Opsec

Krebs on Security

Roughly nine years ago, KrebsOnSecurity profiled a Pakistan-based cybercrime group called “ The Manipulaters ,” a sprawling web hosting network of phishing and spam delivery platforms. 14, 2024, KrebsOnSecurity heard from the same bluebtcus@gmail.com address, apropos of nothing. Why you destroy our lifes? Please remove it.”

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Fake Lawsuit Threat Exposes Privnote Phishing Sites

Krebs on Security

Other Privnote phishing domains that also phoned home to the same Internet address as pirwnote[.]com com is currently selling security cameras made by the Chinese manufacturer Hikvision , via an Internet address based in Hong Kong. Searching DomainTools for domains that include both of these terms reveals pirwnote[.]com.

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Crooked Cops, Stolen Laptops & the Ghost of UGNazi

Krebs on Security

In June 2016, Islam was sentenced to a year in prison for an impressive array of crimes, including stalking people online and posting their personal data on the Internet. Au was featured on the July 2024 cover of “Womenpreneur Middle East.” attorney general. Meanwhile, the U.K.